police officer‚ lawyer‚ or detective a person must have a good general knowledge of the law enforcement field terminology. This paper will explain and define some law enforcement terms such as Pseudospeciation‚ social constructions‚ bigotry‚ racism‚ hegemony‚ disparity‚ and discrimination. Pseudospeciation This term refers to the “cultural differences that cause humans to separate into different social groups‚ with different language‚ dress‚ and customs”. For example‚ Jews and Germans back in World War
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down‚ it’s unchangeable. This paper‚ however‚ is to provide an opposite idea that the United States is a hegemon in decline due to some major problems which are going to be discussed in the following parts. The United States as a hegemon The term “hegemony” is essentially synonymous with leadership. It derives from a Greek word (hegemonia) that translates simply as “dominance over”‚ or in another word‚ it
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M. (2010) A Preliminary Report on The Sources of Ireland’s Banking Crisis. Retrieved June 1‚ 2012 from http://www.bankinginquiry.gov.ie/Preliminary%20Report%20into%20Ireland%27s%20Banking%20Crisis%2031%20May%202010.pdf Stillo‚ M. (1999) Antonio Gramsci. Retrieved June 15‚ 2012 from www.theory.org.uk
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Susan Bordo examines Western culture as it relates to the body‚ specifically the slender body in this chapter of her book‚ Unbearable Weight. Diets have been important since the Ancient Greek and Middle Ages‚ where the Greeks mastered their “public” selves by regulating “food intake… as a road to self-mastery” and the Christians fasted for their “inner” selves to achieve “spiritual purification and domination of the flesh” (page 185). By the nineteenth century‚ diet became associated with the aesthetics
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Mills‚ Schudson‚ and Gitlin show different approaches to society and the role of mass media. Each approach helps illustrate a different focus on society. They each hold special relevance in a discussion of the history of societal beliefs. The Mass Society refers to the overall belief C. Wright Mills held in relation to the type of society he believed we live in. Mills began The Power Elite with a bold statement saying‚ "The powers of ordinary men are circumscribed by the everyday words in
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Marxist theory on sociology is primary based on the work of Karl Marx (1818-1883). His ideas seem to be equally important in the field of economics and political science. Several neo-Marxist theorists like Louis Althusser (1918-1990)‚ Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) et al have contributed in taking Marxist theory on sociology further. Marx lived in an age when entire Europe was still recovering from cultural shock of prior revolutions (French revolution and others). Moreover at that period entire
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hegemon and a global leader in relation to politics‚ economy and culture. The majority would probably argue that this has been the case since the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War. Even though the world was divided between to hegemonies during the Cold War at least one half of the world acknowledged and even depended on the American supremacy. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War in 1991 really demonstrated that USA was the one and only superpower in the
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responsible for all the rubbish in the media. In this argument I will prove that the responsible parties would in fact be both the producer and its consumers. I will elucidate the issue with Osgood Schramms model of communication and the concept of hegemony with TMZ‚ a tabloid website and television series‚ as representation of the culture industry‚ to develop my argument. TMZ began as a celebrity news website in 2005‚ drew traction among consumers when Nielsen reflected an audience of 4.5million in
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within what is considered to be a subaltern status because Anglo colonizers put them in that position. In this case subaltern status refers to living outside of the circle of hegemony. Stereotyping is often a useful tool during the process of putting down a whole people. Stereotyping dehumanizes people‚ thus achieving cultural hegemony. In turn they gain a justification for the mistreatment that they inflict on the minorities‚ which in this case are the Latino people.
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two completely separate trains of thought. The first train of thought is the idea of paralogy and disrupting the hegemony . The second train of thought is the idea of commodification. The two seem to have nothing to do with each other. On one hand‚ one could think that postmodernism is a good thing because it frees people’s thought processes. Postmodernism is the destruction of hegemony‚ opening up plurality‚ diversity‚ and heterogeneity. On the other hand‚ it commodifies culture and feeds into capitalism though
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